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I'd wear any of my private attire for the world to see. But I would rather have an open flesh wound than ever wear a band aid in public. — Lady Gaga

I've always got songs ready to go. It's not a challenge to conjure anything, it's just whether the music I supply is desirable. — Nicholas Thorburn

My first transistor radio was the heart of my gadget love today. It fit in my hand and brought me a world of music 24 / 7. — Steve Wozniak

Guys like me and Ray Charles, when we was coming up through our days, country music and soul music was just a very thin line between the two. — Percy Sledge

If all meanings could be adequately expressed by words, the arts of painting and music would not exist. — John Dewey

My whole thing is just to put out positive messages in the music, give people something that can change their lives. — Kid Cudi

It is desirable that people make music on the breath, with the breath. — Dietrich Fischer-Dieskau

...And you're the only one who knows. — Billy Joel

He slid his saxophone under the bed before we got naked on it, and I think it made the whole thing better. I really do. — Charlie Close

Listening to music, I realised, was simply the pleasure of counting without realising you were counting. — Matt Haig

And this is the origin of pop music: it's a professional music which draws upon both folk music and fine arts music as well. — Pete Seeger

One of the nice things about licensing music to movies or advertisements is you can reach a lot of people who normally wouldn't hear music. — Moby

A good read is like dancing a tango with the author. You feel the music, give yourself over, move in unison to the music of words. ~ Mark Rubinstein — Mark Rubinstein

You ought to enjoy the rhythm of the sacred ride. — Lailah Gifty Akita

My music wouldn't sound the way it does if I hadn't had the experience of conducting. — Esa-Pekka Salonen

When I'm doing music and I'm on the road, I love it. But once I'm home, it's very difficult to go back out on the road. — Noel Gallagher

Even if you don't understand the language, you can still love the music. — CL

When I started playing music, people weren't selling 5 million records. That was not the standard; that was not the focus. — Prince

I just try to approach and serve the music in the way that I think is right for the band I'm in at the time. — Chad Smith

The music is a vibration in the brain rather than the ear. — Amy Clampitt

Books, ingeniously coupled with music and alcohol, enabled the Irish to transcend reality. — Joe Queenan

Everything in the universe has a rhythm, everything dances. — Maya Angelou

She was as lovely sleeping as she was dripping in sensuality at the fundraiser — Kailin Gow

When the music changes, so does the dance (Anon) — Peter Kerr

What I'm trying to do is put back into rap music what's missing - which is the good part, the fun part, that party part. — Flavor Flav

Try this experiment: one day go in a record store and just try and guess what the music sounds like by looking at the album cover. — DJ Spooky

My father loved poetry and music. But deep in himself he thought teaching the finest thing a person could do. — George Steiner

There are a lot of disadvantages with the YouTube stigma, because no one wants to be known as just a cover band. It's all about the original music. — Alex Goot

Creativity and artistic endeavors have a mission that goes far beyond just making music for the sake of music — Herbie Hancock

Perhaps it is music that will save the world. — Shinichi Suzuki

I constantly find myself changing my mind all the time. One day, I want to do just acting and just that. One day I want to do music and just that. — Selena Gomez

Has it struck you that the music which is regarded as the most sublime in western civilization, which is the music of Bach, is called baroque? — Pierre Schaeffer

I'm trying to give people the chance to put out their music without the bullshit pressures of other labels. — Dizzee Rascal

The hardest thing for a musician to learn is how to play WITH people. That's what made the Basie rhythm section. — Jo Jones

I've done some acting and a lot of different things, but mostly it's the music. — Joan Jett

I did the marching band all throughout junior high and high school. Music was one of my favorite things in school. — Tommy Lee

The music comes first. It will always be first — John O'Callaghan

I've said that playing the blues is like having to be black twice. Stevie Ray Vaughan missed on both counts, but I never noticed. — B.B. King

I want to make music that stands the test of time. — Bridgit Mendler

Popular music is slowly being laid to rest in every conceivable way ... the ashes are already about us if we could but notice them. — Steven Morrissey

I love classical music; I love the way it's worked ... all those chord sequences so I often use that sort of effect in my solos. — Jon Lord

My core values are still the same about music, and my work ethic, and what I want to represent to people. — DJ Shadow

Curtain! Fast music! Light! Ready for the last finale! Great! The show looks good, the show looks good! — Florenz Ziegfeld

Play the music that best describes you
Make the music that comes from your Heart. — Lebogang Lynx Bopape

One of the Keith Commandments is that nothing is secret. — Jessica Pallington West

If you talk to any director, they'll say music is fifty percent of the movie. — Hans Zimmer

I think too much of the music industry is for the lawyer and accountant mentality. — Chuck D

Until the day I don't breathe, I will create music. — Gift Of Gab

Not the rich viol, trump, cymbal, nor horn,
Guitar, nor cittern, nor the pining flute,
Are half so sweet as tender human words. — Bryan Procter

I've been told that nobody sings the word 'hunger' like I do. — Billie Holiday

When it comes to Fashion Week, I'm over the too-cool-for-school runway experience with loud music in a raw space that's inconvenient for everyone. — Rodger Berman

I enjoy the healing music and touch of love, touching my heart and soul when I give it away. — Debasish Mridha

Everybody was sorta going to sleep twards the end of 1983, and I felt that they had to be woken up! — Morrissey

For the children around the world without a home, say a prayer tonight. — Third Day

I can't just have one painting - I need to cover the wall in paintings. It's the same with my music. I want to mix everything together to create more. — Florence Welch

Sailboats with they were stars, floating softly through the sky, among our dreams that pay goodbye. — Adam Young

Emphasis on the common emotive or affective origins of music and words in the first cries of humankind undermines words. — Jean-Philippe Rameau

I do but sing because I must; and pipe but as the linnets sing. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Of all the arts, music is really the most abstract. — Leo Ornstein

No one, not even Shakespeare, surpasses Milton in his command of the sound, the music, the weight and taste and texture of English words. — Philip Pullman

Think about the number of people who do film music, make records and have a Native American heritage - and I may be the only one on the list. — Robbie Robertson

The good times are killing me — Modest Mouse

The music is in minors. — Gwendolyn Brooks

Really, music is what I'm interested in, and the lyric part of it came from just having to have something to sing. — Adam Schlesinger

Jazz is the music of unemployment. — Frank Zappa

It was one of the marvellous feelings of the film, having the music going in your head while doing scenes. — Dinah Sheridan

One must go through life, be it red or blue, stark naked and accompanied by the music of a subtle fisherman, prepared at all times for a celebration. — Francis Picabia

Beneath the layers of hurt, beneath the ragged laughter, I heard a willingness to endure. Endure - and make music that wasn't there before. — Barack Obama

There was no use pretending, no magic left to hear, all the music gave me was a craving for lite beer. — Tom Petty

I hate to say this, but I always listen to the music and the instrumentation first, and then grab on to the lyrics later. — Elton John

Music is an important part of our culture and record stores play a vital part in keeping the power of music alive — Chuck Berry

The way I make music is unique to myself and the way I have lived my life - no one else would tell that story in the same way that I do. — PJ Harvey

Then she took up the bow and began to play. The tone was warm and deep, storied with layers of age. — A.S. Peterson

I wonder about the trees.
Why do we wish to bear
Forever the noise of these
More than another noise
So close to our dwelling place? — Robert Frost

I took your name when I took those vows
I meant 'em back then and I mean 'em right now. — The Band Perry

Just because I grew up a white guy in America doesn't mean that's the music of my life. — Ezra Koenig

He passed a stall in which five huge men were dancing to the music of a lugubrious hurdy-gurdy being played by a mournful-looking black bear; — Neil Gaiman

100% Reason to remember the name. — Fort Minor

Pop music I have always loved best. But the more extreme, fascist-led examples of the music business I tend to detest the most. — John Lydon

The passion and spontaneity in music is all gone. — Jan Hammer

We're all weird. — John O'Callaghan

It occurred to me by intuition, and music was the driving force behind that intuition. My discovery was the result of musical perception. — Albert Einstein

If life is a song and we are born with the lyrics, then it is up to us to create the music that fits! — Michelle Cooke

The first thing I really enjoy is to make love, after comes the music. — Gianni Versace

As Branford Marsalis said in a beautiful essay he write upon Clarence's death, C was blessed with 'the power of musical intent. — Bruce Springsteen

If the King loves music, it is well with the land. — Mencius

Alasdair Fraser's Culburnie Records has quietly become one of the best Celtic music labels today. — Jim Lee

I'm very much a traditionalist, but I think it's important to know about tradition so that you can evolve the music you are deciding to make. — Chely Wright

There is simply no limit to the tyrannical snobbery that otherwise decent people can descend into when it comes to music. — Stephen Fry

It's not that people don't like classical music. It's that they don't have the chance to understand and to experience it. — Gustavo Dudamel

My music had roots which I'd dug up from my own childhood, musical roots buried in the darkest soil. — Ray Charles

The reason I like doing these acting projects is because no matter how much acting I do, I'll always have music in my life. I love having both. — Tyler Hilton

Recording music is not really the healthiest thing for the body. — Alex Ebert

It's really about making the best music you can make. It's really about working hard. — John Legend

I was able to do a lot of music on 'SCTV,' and I was really lucky to do a musical; I got to sing the part of Seymour in 'Little Shop of Horrors.' — Rick Moranis

When we stopped in front of it and turned off the engine, we heard music coming from inside - jazz. It sounded sophisticated and lonely. We — Denis Johnson

The only thing I knew how to do was draw and play music. — DJ Ashba

The music at a wedding procession always reminds me of the music of soldiers going into battle. — Heinrich Heine

If I turn up the music of busyness, I will miss the whispers of God's call. — Diane Moody

In the silence, the bear died. It was a cute death, with funny music. — Orson Scott Card